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4-Year Deal: 0,1,1.5 & 1.5
Nine Sun Media workplaces have ratified an historic deal negotiated for the first time at a central table. A tentative deal was reached Feb.14 and ratified at votes across Ontario over the last week of February and the first week of March. The central deal covered wages, benefits and job security issues.
By Cynthia Turner
Secretary Treasurer, CEP Local 191
Where would Canadian workers be without unions? Would we have an 8 hour workday? Would we have Workers Compensation? Would we get time and a half for over time? Would we have paid holidays? Would we have a national Pension Plan? These are things that are standard for all Canadians, not just unionized workers but they came about through the efforts of Canadian unions. Unions lobbied governments to make sure that Canada was a safe and fair-minded place to live.
So where did the money come from to make sure that these things happened? Where did the money come from to make sure that your employers adhered to the collective agreements we have fought for? It came from our union dues, plain and simple. And now that is under attack. Pierre Poilievre, the Federal Conservative MP for Nepean-Carleton, has unleashed a movement to change the rules regarding the payment of union dues. The Federal Government is trying to abolish the Rand Formula.
CEP national president Dave Coles has commented on the recent Supreme Court decision on pension plans caught in bankruptcy proceedings. The news release is reprinted below. Also, Brother Coles penned an opinion piece that was recently printed in newspapers across the country.
For immediate release February 6, 2013
OTTAWA — “Retirees have once again been told to go to the back of the line so that banks and hedge funds can collect their winnings,” says Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union President Dave Coles.
“It’s almost criminal that Canada’s bankruptcy laws continue to force pensioners into poverty,” says Coles, referring to the recent Supreme Court decision that 170 former employees of Indalex Limited would be stripped of the $6.7 million to cover their pensions that had been awarded earlier by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Once again, Local 191 is offering three post-secondary scholarships to all CEP 191 members in good standing and their children, and the children of retired 191 members.
The scholarships are valued at $1,250 each and the recipients will be determined by those who submit the best essay, as judged by the scholarship committee. Continue reading
Sister Trilbee Stirling has been recently appointed to the CEP National Young Workers Committee. Continue reading
We’ve redesigned the Local’s website, making it easier to read, easier to update, and hopefully more relevant and useful to our members. Continue reading
Nov. 13, 2012
As part of a massive layoff of one-third of its Canadian unionized workforce, Sun Media gutted its small Winnipeg Sun newsroom today by slashing six jobs, as well as cutting two in advertising. Continue reading
Nov. 1, 2012
Free Press Continues To Cut Jobs
As the Winnipeg Free Press launches its “new” Uptown product today five more workers from the old Uptown are out of work.
Quebec City — Oct. 17, 2012
By Aldo Santin, President, CEP Local 191
The final day of this historic 10th Annual Convention ended with a flurry of resolutions and the swearing in of the new executive — for the few remaining months that this union will exist as CEP.
Quebec City — Oct. 16, 2012
By Aldo Santin, President, CEP Local 191
The formal merger of CEP and CAW is still months away but you should know there will be immediate benefits with the creation of a new union.